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The morning calm over Georgian Bay was broken on August 8, when Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call that would later spark more questions than answers for a northern Ontario community. Shortly after 8 a.m., police were alerted to personal property discovered near the water’s edge, a detail as ordinary as it is ominous […]
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Travellers passing through Toronto Pearson, Vancouver International, Montreal Trudeau, and Calgary International on Monday may find more than the usual hustle: a line of resolute Air Canada flight attendants making their voices heard. At precisely 1 p.m. Eastern Time, union members plan to gather outside Canada’s busiest airports, their banners raised not for celebration but
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In the quiet hours of summer, a new threat has crept through open windows and attic vents: bats. Ontario’s Peterborough Public Health, now merged with Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit, is sounding the alarm after a spike in bat-related exposures left residents and officials on edge. Across the region, an uptick in encounters
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Trenton’s loading docks once buzzed with the certainty of steady shipments to the United States, but tariffs have made every crate a gamble. At first glance, the numbers sound reassuring: Prime Minister Mark Carney cites 85 per cent of Canada’s trade with its southern neighbour as “tariff-free.” The reality, though, is stitched together with caveats
Tariffs Cloud Canada-U.S. Trade Even as CUSMA Stands Read More »
Sirens fade, police tape flutters in the wind, and Barrie’s wooded encampment between Victoria, John, and Anne streets stands silent—its fate now tangled in a web of municipal and provincial authority. Ten days after a major police investigation cordoned off the area, Barrie officials stepped into territory that had become both a crime scene and
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Blue lights flashed in the early hours as Highway 11 northbound sat silent, its usual pulse of transport stilled by the aftermath of a crash no one saw coming. An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser, parked to protect an already fractured scene, became the next casualty. Shortly after 3 a.m. on August 10, an officer stationed
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Forty-one thousand jobs vanished across Canada in July, a stark number with outsized meaning for working families in Ontario’s towns and cities. Yet, the official unemployment rate held its breath at 6.9 per cent, according to Statistics Canada, masking the churn beneath the surface. Ontario’s job market, already weathered by economic uncertainty, absorbed the brunt
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Under the bright lights of Boots & Hearts Barn Burner, a symbolic cheque changed hands—and with it, the future of healthcare in Barrie. On August 8, 2025, the crowd at the annual hockey game witnessed more than friendly rivalry. CanadaOne Auto delivered the first installment of a $1 million pledge to Royal Victoria Regional Health
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Steel teeth bit into the earth behind Barrie’s food bank Friday morning as a backhoe and a line of city vehicles rolled onto the Anne Street homeless encampment, turning a quiet stretch of John and Victoria into the city’s latest stage for uncertainty. The arrival of heavy machinery at the encampment marked a visible escalation
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When the Girl Guides of Canada announced the suspension of all travel to the United States, the ripple spread beyond a handful of postponed excursions—signalling a profound unease at the border for youth groups rooted in inclusion and safety. The Girl Guides’ decision, effective September 1, arrived after what the organization described as “careful consideration.”
Canadian youth groups rethink trips amid policy shifts Read More »
